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As a burnt-out, laid-off aging developer, I want to thank Anthropic for helping me get in love with programming again. Claude Code on terminal with all my belov

by alecco 1y ago

As a burnt-out, laid-off aging developer, I want to thank Anthropic for helping me get in love with programming again. Claude Code on terminal with all my beloved *nix tools and vim rocks.

lupusreal 1y ago
Agreed, it's actually fun again. The evening hours I used to burn with video games and weed are now spent with claude code, rewriting and finishing up all my custom desktop tools and utilities I started years ago.
- ojr 1y ago
  I still spend my evening hours like that and do ai-assisted coding in the background
  - lupusreal 1y ago
    Depends on the game tbh, having claude ping me for attention every few minutes disrupts most games too much, but with turn-based or casual games it works out well. OpenTTD and Endless Sky are fun to play while claude churns.
    - epiccoleman 1y ago
      I really didn't need the cognitohazard thought that I could play Factorio and still somehow get things done
      - lupusreal 1y ago
        I'm 10 months clean on factorio, been doing the 12 step program for it. Feeling real tempted to relapse now...
- cevn 1y ago
  I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.
  - lupusreal 1y ago
    I've got it using dbus, doing funky stuff with Xlib, working with pipewire using the pulseaudio protocol which it implemented itself (after I told it to quit using libraries for it.) You can't one-shot complicated problems, at least not without extensive careful prompting, but at this point I believe I can walk it through pretty much anything I can imagine wanting done.
  - bcrosby95 1y ago
    I mean, yes. This is what Claude is good for: helping solve problems that aren't difficult or complex, just time consuming. The thing is a lot of software jobs boil down to not difficult but time consuming.
  - jliptzin 1y ago
    It’s still better letting Claude slog through all that boilerplate and skeletal code for you so that you can take the wheel when things start getting interesting. I’ve avoided working on stuff in the past just because I knew I wouldn’t be motivated enough to write the foundation and all the uninteresting stuff that has to come first.
    - RobCat27 1y ago
      I've enjoyed using it for coming up with the structure of a project. I'll ask in search mode for structures of other similar projects if I'm not sure. I also enjoy making human-readable .md or .txt documentation files for myself very quickly with it.
  - robotswantdata 1y ago
    Try giving codex IDE a go, now included with ChatGPT. Had equal frustrations with Claude making bad decisions, in contrast gpt5 codex high is extremely good!
- protocolture 1y ago
  I had ChatGPT write from spec an assignment I failed to complete during university, that has always stuck with me as something I would like to finish.
lisbbb 1y ago
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- dymk 1y ago
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- rsanek 1y ago
  Careful with trying to generalize personalized insights from therapy! Everyone is different. I believe advice giving (& receiving!) is very difficult to do well, even with people you know personally. For strangers on an internet forum, it is impossible.
- alecco 1y ago
  Thanks for caring. At the moment I am in a good place and luckily I don't have financial problems. My mental health is getting better thanks to a fixed schedule, sleep, diet, exercise, socializing, and walks in nature. I hope you get better soon, too. If you want to chat with somebody, let me know.
taude 1y ago
100%. As a burnt-out manager, who doesn't get a lot of spare time to actually code. It's nice to have a tool like CC where I can make actual incremental changes in the spare 15 minutes I get here and there. I spend most of my time making version files with the prompt, but pretty impressed by how far I've gotten on an idea that would have never seen the light of day.... The thoughts of having to write input validation, database persistence, and all the other boring things I've had to write a dozen times in the past....
- swalsh 1y ago
  As an Architect, i feel like a large part of my job is to help my team be their best, but I'm also focused on the delivery of a few key solutions. I'm used to writing tasks, and helping assign it to members on the team while occasionally picking up the odd-end piece of work myself, focusing more on architecture and helping individual members when they get stuck or when problems come up. But with the latest coding agents, i'm always thinking in the back of my head (I can get the AI to finish this task 3x quicker, and probably better quality if I just do it myself with the AI). We sit on SCRUM meetings sizing tasks, and i'm thinking "bro, you're just going to take my task description paste it into AI and be done in 1/2 hr" but we size it to a day or 2.

by alecco 1y ago

As a burnt-out, laid-off aging developer, I want to thank Anthropic for helping me get in love with programming again. Claude Code on terminal with all my beloved *nix tools and vim rocks.

lupusreal 1y ago

Agreed, it's actually fun again. The evening hours I used to burn with video games and weed are now spent with claude code, rewriting and finishing up all my custom desktop tools and utilities I started years ago.

ojr 1y ago
I still spend my evening hours like that and do ai-assisted coding in the background
- lupusreal 1y ago
  Depends on the game tbh, having claude ping me for attention every few minutes disrupts most games too much, but with turn-based or casual games it works out well. OpenTTD and Endless Sky are fun to play while claude churns.
  - epiccoleman 1y ago
    I really didn't need the cognitohazard thought that I could play Factorio and still somehow get things done
    - lupusreal 1y ago
      I'm 10 months clean on factorio, been doing the 12 step program for it. Feeling real tempted to relapse now...
cevn 1y ago
I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.
- lupusreal 1y ago
  I've got it using dbus, doing funky stuff with Xlib, working with pipewire using the pulseaudio protocol which it implemented itself (after I told it to quit using libraries for it.) You can't one-shot complicated problems, at least not without extensive careful prompting, but at this point I believe I can walk it through pretty much anything I can imagine wanting done.
- bcrosby95 1y ago
  I mean, yes. This is what Claude is good for: helping solve problems that aren't difficult or complex, just time consuming. The thing is a lot of software jobs boil down to not difficult but time consuming.
- jliptzin 1y ago
  It’s still better letting Claude slog through all that boilerplate and skeletal code for you so that you can take the wheel when things start getting interesting. I’ve avoided working on stuff in the past just because I knew I wouldn’t be motivated enough to write the foundation and all the uninteresting stuff that has to come first.
  - RobCat27 1y ago
    I've enjoyed using it for coming up with the structure of a project. I'll ask in search mode for structures of other similar projects if I'm not sure. I also enjoy making human-readable .md or .txt documentation files for myself very quickly with it.
- robotswantdata 1y ago
  Try giving codex IDE a go, now included with ChatGPT. Had equal frustrations with Claude making bad decisions, in contrast gpt5 codex high is extremely good!
protocolture 1y ago
I had ChatGPT write from spec an assignment I failed to complete during university, that has always stuck with me as something I would like to finish.

lisbbb 1y ago

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dymk 1y ago
[flagged]
rsanek 1y ago
Careful with trying to generalize personalized insights from therapy! Everyone is different. I believe advice giving (& receiving!) is very difficult to do well, even with people you know personally. For strangers on an internet forum, it is impossible.
alecco 1y ago
Thanks for caring. At the moment I am in a good place and luckily I don't have financial problems. My mental health is getting better thanks to a fixed schedule, sleep, diet, exercise, socializing, and walks in nature. I hope you get better soon, too. If you want to chat with somebody, let me know.

taude 1y ago

100%. As a burnt-out manager, who doesn't get a lot of spare time to actually code. It's nice to have a tool like CC where I can make actual incremental changes in the spare 15 minutes I get here and there. I spend most of my time making version files with the prompt, but pretty impressed by how far I've gotten on an idea that would have never seen the light of day.... The thoughts of having to write input validation, database persistence, and all the other boring things I've had to write a dozen times in the past....

swalsh 1y ago
As an Architect, i feel like a large part of my job is to help my team be their best, but I'm also focused on the delivery of a few key solutions. I'm used to writing tasks, and helping assign it to members on the team while occasionally picking up the odd-end piece of work myself, focusing more on architecture and helping individual members when they get stuck or when problems come up. But with the latest coding agents, i'm always thinking in the back of my head (I can get the AI to finish this task 3x quicker, and probably better quality if I just do it myself with the AI). We sit on SCRUM meetings sizing tasks, and i'm thinking "bro, you're just going to take my task description paste it into AI and be done in 1/2 hr" but we size it to a day or 2.